Biography
Piano
Garrick Ohlsson
Since his triumph as winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess. Although long regarded as one of the world’s leading exponents of the music of Frédéric Chopin, Ohlsson commands an enormous repertoire which ranges over the entire piano literature encompassing more than 80 concertos.
This season, Ohlsson appears with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, and Fort Worth Symphony. Collaborations with the Cleveland, Emerson, Tokyo, and Takács quartets have led to decades of touring and recordings, and his solo recordings are available on Hyperion and Bridge Records.
Ohlsson studied at the Juilliard School and was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize in 1994 and the University Musical Society (University of Michigan) Distinguished Artist Award in 1998. He was the 2014 recipient of the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance from Northwestern University, and in August 2018, the Polish government awarded him the Gloria Artis Gold Medal for Cultural Merit. He is a Steinway Artist and lives in San Francisco, where he serves on the piano faculty of SFCM. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut in May 1972.
This season, Ohlsson appears with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, and Fort Worth Symphony. Collaborations with the Cleveland, Emerson, Tokyo, and Takács quartets have led to decades of touring and recordings, and his solo recordings are available on Hyperion and Bridge Records.
Ohlsson studied at the Juilliard School and was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize in 1994 and the University Musical Society (University of Michigan) Distinguished Artist Award in 1998. He was the 2014 recipient of the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance from Northwestern University, and in August 2018, the Polish government awarded him the Gloria Artis Gold Medal for Cultural Merit. He is a Steinway Artist and lives in San Francisco, where he serves on the piano faculty of SFCM. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut in May 1972.
